Two games into the season, the Patriots have attempted 100 passes while running the ball only 43 times.

At his current pace, quarterback Tom Brady will make Drew Bledsoe history (again).

With 691 attempts in 1994, Bledsoe currently owns the NFL record for pass attempts in a season.

Brady is on pace to surpass Bledsoe in Week 14 and keep on throwing until he completes the season with an even 800 pass attempts.

Oh, yes, and with 62 completions in two games, Brady is on pace to connect with his receivers 496 times this season, a number that would obliterate Drew Brees’ NFL record-setting 440 completions in 2007.

“The first game, that was kind of the position we were in,” said Patriots running back Sammy Morris, referring to his team’s 25-24 come-from-behind victory over Buffalo.

“I guess in this (Sunday’s 16-9 loss to the New York Jets), I’ve got to go back and look at the film and kind of see how things played out. It is what it is.”

It’s an imbalance of proportions one might see in the now-defunct Arena League, the indoor game where the running game was nothing more than a passing thought.

With 71 yards in two games, Fred Taylor is the Patriots’ leading rusher.

At his current pace, Taylor will eclipse Eric Dickerson’s all-time NFL record of 2,105 yards in a season with the 1984 Los Angeles Rams in late November … of the year 2012.

As a team the Patriots are on track to rush for 1,248 yards this season – a figure that was exceeded by six individuals in the league last year and a total that would be the third-lowest in franchise history and an all-time team low since the league went to a 16-game regular season 31 years ago.

Likewise, at their current pace, as a team the Patriots will attempt to run the ball 344 times this season — a total that would be the third-lowest in franchise history and an all-time team low since the league went to 16 games.

Naturally, for a team playing in the Northeast as the Patriots do, things will change with the weather — throwing the ball 53 times against the Bills on Sept. 14 in Foxboro is one thing, throwing it that number of times on Dec. 20 in Buffalo would be another; the Patriots also have two home games at Gillette Stadium in December – but at the moment the team ranks fourth in the NFL in passing offense, a distant 26th in the league in rushing.

Even with his favorite target, Wes Welker, sidelined last Sunday, Brady threw 47 times. That would be four more times than the Patriots have run the ball this season.

Page 2 of 3 - “I don’t try to make too much out of the ratio, whether we’re balanced or not,” Taylor said. “We prefer to be balanced, but at the same time we want to just score points and get victories.”

Now, those are two areas where the results have been mixed for the Patriots.

Rallying for two touchdowns in the last five minutes, the Pats put those 25 points on the board in their season opener with the Bills at Gillette. On Sunday, they were denied takeoff by the Jets, limited to three first-half field goals by Stephen Gostkowski in the Meadowlands.

It’s not as if the Patriots haven’t had some success when running the ball, as infrequently as that has been.

While they were limited to 3.2 yards per carry (73 yards on 23 attempts) by the Bills, the Patriots pushed that number to 4.2 (83 yards on 20 attempts) against the Jets.

For the season, the Patriots are at 3.6 yards per carry. That may not rival Michael Vick’s league-record 8.45-yard average with Atlanta in 2006, but it isn’t Marion Butts bad (2.9 yards per carry with the Patriots in 1994), either.

This Sunday at Gillette, the Patriots will be facing an Atlanta Falcons defense that is yielding 5.1 yards per carry

“We’re going to try whatever we have to (in order) to try and improve in the running game, of course,” Taylor said. “We’ll see what we can do better to improve and we’ll go from there.”

No need for Taylor to improve on what he gave the Patriots when they gave him the ball this past Sunday as he averaged a hefty 5.8 yards per carry against the Jets. Problem was, after he ripped off 13- and 12-yard gains on successive carries just past the midway mark of the third quarter, Taylor touched the ball once (he got stuffed, tossed for a 1-yard loss on third-and-one at the New England 38 midway through the fourth quarter) the rest of the way.

For his part, publicly at least, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is taking the old Alfred E. Neuman approach (“What, me worry?”). He insists he doesn’t care how the points are put on the board so long as they’re going up there.

“I’d like to score more points,” said Belichick, whose team is averaging 17 per game. “That’s what the offense is out there for – to score points. If that’s throwing the ball seven or eight times a game, if we score a lot of points, that’s good. If it’s running the ball 70 times a game and we score a lot of points, that’d be fine with me, too. If it’s some combination in the middle and we score a lot of points, that’d be good. But don’t turn the ball over.

Page 3 of 3 - “However we can put points up on the board when the offensive unit’s on the field, that’s what our goal is, whether those are runs or passes or whatever they are. If points are scored, then we’re doing our job. If they’re not, then that’s not what good offense is.”